'''
Created on Feb 28, 2011

@author: Chris
'''

class Word(object):
    '''
    a token which can be broken down further into smaller tokens for easy analysis. The Word class represents a single string delimited by spaces from a sentence
    '''


    def __init__(self, wordText):
        '''
        Constructor
        '''
        self.word = wordText
        self.syllables = NotImplemented # This is the number of syllables in a word
        self.partOfSpeech = NotImplemented # his is the part of speech that the particular word token represents (i.e. noun, verb, etc)